Alleged terror plot targeting Via train thwarted

[barracuda]

Honestly and sincerely - piss off.

[Canadian_watcher]

I will allow the timestamps to speak for themselves, lover.
and don't make insinuations that I have sent you a PM. nice try, though.

[barracuda]

Really. You've already ruined the thread, and your sexual innuendo is, again, unwelcome, weird stalker. I am not interested in your private messages.

[Jeff]

Please stay on topic.

Like the doctor says. (Also, FWIW, barracuda and Jerky are most assuredly not sockpuppets of each other.)

Anyone notice that the announcement came during debate in the House of Commons on new security legislation?

"It is a little bit odd that we're having it the same day that we're dealing with new legislation here in the House of Commons...."

[Jeff]

Please no more personal attacks in this thread. Any further such posts will be deleted.

[Fresno_Layshaft]

have some respect, would you? My homeland was just ALMOST terrorized. do you have any idea how scary that is? Where is the fucking army? Canada sucks, they should have TROOPS on the STREETS by now. I for one would be thankful for it, and heartily scorn in a patronizing mob of fellow scorners anyone who tells me I might want to think twice about this whole thing.

Sorry, but that was funny.

Everyone needs to fuckin lighten up around here. RI has turned into a toxic pit of hate.

[Hunter]

Please stay on topic.

Anyone notice that the announcement came during debate in the House of Commons on new security legislation?

Doesnt it always seem to work that way, take a look at the anthrax letters sent to two senators after 9-11, the letters were sent one week BEFORE the final senate vote on the patriot act and they were sent specifically to the two senators, who up to that point, had been opposed to and were speaking out against, the patriot act. After receiving the letters, they both voted for the patriot act a week later.

Since that time several good people were accused of sending those letters, one who killed himself because of the FBI destroying his life over it, and he was later cleared of any wrongdoing, point is they never did find anyone who sent them and did their best to pin it on anyone they could find.

[Canadian_watcher]

interestingly this story alleges that the US 'wouldn't give the go ahead' to Canadian law enforcement to stop the plot and arrest the players, even though they knew of them and had evidence against them for months.

Also the bit at the end with Ray Boisvert (formerly CSIS) is interesting, but mostly because he sounds so naive. I'm not sure he answers Peter Mansbridge's question which is "state sponsorship or not - first they say no then they say there were ties to Iran"

[Canadian_watcher]

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/25/exclusive-canada-tried-failed-to-deport-via-rail-terror-suspect-nine-years-ago/

and so they wanted to deport him 9 years ago due to the fact that he's a serial criminal... but they couldn't because he has no rights in the land of his birth ??

[Canadian_watcher]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/via-rail-plots-alleged-al-qaeda-iran-connection-spurs-alarm-in-us/article11562189/

U.S. national-security sources close to the investigation said that was a reference to a network of low- to middle-level al-Qaeda fixers and “facilitators” based in the town of Zahedan, close to Iran’s borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan, that moves money and fighters through Iran to support its activities in South Asia.

Canadian police say there is no sign of Iranian government involvement with the suspects.

The RCMP’s assertion of a link between al-Qaeda and Iran raised alarms on Capitol Hill on Thursday, with congressman Brian Higgins calling it a largely unexplored facet of international terrorism.

“We absolutely need to delve more into al-Qaeda’s presence in Iran,” he told The Globe and Mail after a House intelligence and terrorism subcommittee meeting, where he demanded a hearing focused on the relationship between al-Qaeda and Iran. “That’s not an issue anybody has really dealt with before.”

The Republican chairman of the committee, Peter King, reacted favourably to the special-hearing request, especially given “that this was going to be an attack against the American homeland.”

Mr. Higgins, who represents the area of New York state where the targeted train would have entered the United States, said the RCMP investigation upends conventional intelligence on the issue.

While Iran is known to be a waystation for al-Qaeda operatives travelling between Pakistan and the Middle East, the terror network’s regard within the country has remained murky. Religious difference between the Sunni-extremist al-Qaeda and Shia Iran is thought to fuel a long-standing animosity between the two.

One counter-terrorism expert appearing before the subcommittee – held under the auspices of the House committee on homeland security – admitted the link deserved further investigation.

“It’s not news that al-Qaeda has had a presence in Iran,” said Richard Daddario, the New York Police Department’s deputy commissioner for counter-terrorism. “How hospitable that hosting has been … is something worth thinking about.”

U.S. and Canadian agencies are still investigating the possibility of cross-border accomplices in thes alleged plot. One official said there was “another shoe to drop” in the case.

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